From a statement just released by New Mexico State Police on Tuesday’s fatal car crash near Glorieta that occurred around 6:30 p.m.:

Raquel Garcia, 3, of Las Vegas, New Mexico died yesterday evening after two vehicles collided.

State Police officers from the Pecos and Santa Fe offices responded to a two-vehicle collision just after 6:30 p.m. on Intersate-25 near milepost 299 (between Pecos and Santa Fe). Through the course of the officers’ investigation, they learned that Marsela Garcia, 20, also of Las Vegas, was traveling northbound on I-25 in a 2002 Chevy with her daughter Raquel. (more…)

Talking to the older sister of 19-year-old EMT Vanessa Carrillo, the woman critically injured in Tuesday’s head-on collision on I-25 when a wrong-way car collided with the ambulance Carrillo was driving, was encouraging.

She’s awake, talking and she should be just fine. She was airlifted to UNM Hospital in Albuquerque after the crash and friends and family have been by her side since.

She had a torn muscle in her arm, multiple broken bones in both legs and a broken orbital bone in her face. And when talking with family Wednesday morning, “She told us to stop worrying about her,” said Desiree Carrillo, Vanessa’s 21-year-old sister. “That’s how she is.”

An ambulance lies on it's side on the north bound lanes of I-25 on Tuesday morning after colliding with a car traveling the wrong way on Interstate-25. (Luis Sanchez Saturno/The New Mexican)

Northbound I-25 was still closed around lunchtime Tuesday as police sifted through “several hundred feet” of crash-scene debris according to Santa Fe Police Chief Aric Wheeler.

A woman driving a late-model Nissan Altima was reportedly reaching speeds around 100 mph while traveling south in the northbound lanes of I-25 when she collided head-on with a medical transport truck around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.

The woman died and the female passenger in her car was taken to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center. the female driver of the medical transport truck was airlifted to University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque.

I will update here and on santafenewmexican.com with details throughout the day.